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Karie

#12,523 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karie has been given to 5,356 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #12,523 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 293 recorded.

Babies named Karie, 2025

1 in 474,000

Karie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karie means

Karie is a given name.

The naming story behind Karie

Wikidata records Karie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q131902719, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,356 girls were recorded with the name Karie between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 293 in 1975; its best national rank was #566 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,892 in 2020 to #12,523 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,775 in 2015 to #12,523 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Karie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,523
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karie was born before 1976 — so the typical Karie is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,356
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (2,143).

Is Karie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,631
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,252
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.4%
Peak was 1975 (293)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#566
1975

Spellings of Karie

Karie is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 19.4% against Karie's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Karie is used

Across 1910–2025, Karie was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 45,916 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 16,667
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 25,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 25,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 25,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Karie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karie around the world

Where Karie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #1,607
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Karie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Karie. Linked forms have their own page here.

KariKaryKarien

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Karie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,523
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,631
Best rank ever
#566
1975
Peak year
1975
293 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,356
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Karie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KarrieKarriKarisKarmaKarolKarlyKarliKarterKarmenKarleyKarenaKarsynKaronKarelyKyrieKarimeKarlieKarlynKarolynCorieKarmynKarymeKarsonKarlee

Names with a curve like Karie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Karie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LatriciaShannanTawnyaShanonTawanaToyaTawannaMindiWindyAngellaShonnaTangela

Sibling names for Karie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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